Graal Forums - Important. Everyone read, and give feedback; including Stefan and/or Unixmad.

I have this idea, and well, I'd like to share it.

It's about Graal2002.

Now, yes, I understand it's under construction, so nobody read this post and then cunningly reply with "its under construction u *** loololol".

You see, I also understand that Graal2002 is a ROLEPLAYING playerworld. It was meant for RolePlaying, and thus will probably soon be encouraging and enforcing RolePlay.

Yay, fun, swell!

Or so you think.

You see, I already can predict the demise of RolePlaying on Graal2002. I don't think that the perfect RolePlaying environment is possible, there.

A few simple reasons why, really.

First, it's the fact that Graal2002 is not MADE BY ROLEPLAYERS. It's made by Stefan, and the people who helped, who I do not know the entire list of, but I highly doubt more than a few of them actually know how to RP, if any. Maybe they know what it is, but have any of my fellow RPers out there seen them do it, and do it well?

Probably not.

No offense, guys, but if you're not true RPers, you CAN'T MAKE A TRUE RP WORLD. It's just IMPOSSIBLE. Stefan, you're incredible at what you do, but you as well, unfortunately, do not fully understand the concepts of RP, as I and others do. Maybe you will soon enough, but I can't wait.

Graal2002 has been constructed just like ANY OTHER PLAYERWORLD. It immedeately begins with a story that the player has no choice but to follow, and from their the player's history and quests are chosen for them. They have no possibilities, as EVERY player is a pirate, from the same ship, led by the same captain, of the same place where they came from (Which is, also, unmentioned! An invisible benefactor).

Then, what else is there? There's the actuall STAFF. Talented, young men and women who know how to create cool things, sure, but once again, as I said, are not RolePlayers. How are they supposed to run the world, if they don't know more about RolePlaying than the majority of the players? It just isn't fair for the RPers to have to be led by a bunch of people who can make cool Kingdom Games, CTF Levels, and Zormite bomy fishy silly little skins. I don't want to be offensive towards them, because as I said, they are good at WHAT THEY DO, but they DO NOT DO ROLEPLAYING. And it is unfortunate.

I don't want to keep blabbering on, because I think I've made most of my point. You see, Graal2002 is good, but as I said, it will never be a true RolePlaying environment. I predicted the exact same thing with Graal2001, and I was unfortunately correct. I was so happy to be RPing on G2k1 originally, but then it slowly began with the limitless amounts of Zormite fish skins, and ended with the constant adoption of Kings to the Dustari royal family. Hell, I'd rather have them all be inbreeds, than see them adopt a new King every month. It's just sad.

Stefan, you and your team have good ideas. Very good ideas, that deserve to be placed in a playerworld. But not a RolePlaying playerworld. They deserve to be placed in playerworlds that people enjoy going to just for the sake of becomming a powerful guy who has the exact same past as his brother, best friend, and wife, and who has completed the exact same quests as them. To someone who enjoys that sort of game, that's just a GAME, and it means nothing to them. But to someone like me, who analyses games in order to create a character to play the role within the game, then it means a lot.

All I would like is a very fair chance to either create, or help create, a true RolePlaying environment. Providence and Valikorlia have tried their best, but I feel have also failed, as you cans ee, Providence has a usual player base of 1 (The NPC Server), and Valikorlia has been dead for ages. Sure, they're coming back, but I feel skeptical as to whether or not it'll be any better than it was before it died.

Give me a chance. I know what I'm doing, and I know a lot of people who would love to assist, or even take care of it themselves.

All I want out of this is a playerworld I can stick to RPing on, whenever I;'d like, as much as I'd like.

Is that so hard to ask?

Thank you,
Malak

Andrew Dennis

PS: If you'd like to see the introduction to the story of the playerworld I was planning on making, it's here:

http://val.yorrike.com/story.doc

I also have a long list of really good ideas that fit into fun gameplay with RolePlaying characteristics, that I've received nothing but really nice feedback about.. so, if you want to see it, just tell me.